River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-04-07

land selected under tho several swamp
land grants since lS43 10 March -, 1881, a.,
49,, 40 acres; patents to the several states
under the swamp land acts, including in
demnity patents 10 March 26 les9, 56.14e
$40; amount Of indemnity for money for
swamp iauds allowed the several states to
March 26 1857, s ass 032; number of acres
indemnity certificates, TO March 20, 1881,
731,G64.
Joseph ii. Bradley, a noted lawyer
If Washington, d. c., died on the 3rd, aged
81 years He was counsel for Mrs. Surrat,
and for conduct during the Lincoln assassi-
nation trials was disbarred toy the presiding
Judge ON the charge of dislOyalty, but was
restored SIX years later An ep sode IN his
career was his marriage with Mary Harris,
Il treasury clerk, who shot and killed
another treasury clerk named Burrows,
who, under promise Of marriage, couspired
her ruin Bradley secured the acquital of
his client, ana afterward married her.
April /, President Cleveland APP
pointed Martin V. Montgomery, of
Michigan, to be associate justice of the
supreme court of the District of Columbia,
10 succeed Justice Macarthur, retired. MIR.
Montgomery is a resident of Lansing, Mich,
and entered political life in 1870, eng
elected TO the state legislature "A Demo
crat lie was delegate to the St. Louis
national cony ention IN 1876 ami his appoint
ment as commissioner of patents was one OF
the first OF Importance made by President
Cleveland.
The Interstate Commere Commits
sion met at Washington, March 81 and took
the oath OF Office. Upon motion of Col. Nor
rison, Judge Cooley was unanimously
chosen chairman of the Commission. The
commissioners called upon President Cleve-
land at the White House, The organization
viii he completed April l, by the selection OF
a secretary. Ii il said that at an early day
the commission will decide upon the long
and short haul provision of the act as it APP
plies 10 the railroads east of the Mississippi
river, south of the Ohio and west of the Po-
tOmac.
Messrs. Fairchild and Maynard, the
newly appointed Secretary and Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury held an inn
promptu reception, Friday afternoon More
than o treasury employees called to eX-
tend congratulations. kilograms or notes
of cOngratulatlOn were received from mem
hers OF the cabinet from congressman and
from n number of prominent public men of
New York state and elsewhere. kilograms
announced that CazenOvia and Bovina, the
homes Of the new appointees, were in a
state of Jubilee. Both officials received
handsome floral tributes
There can be no doubt that the wife
OF Secretary Fairchild will make her mark
in Washington society. She is a most
charming and cultivated woman of retiring
manners and great digsity of character and
! one whom il viii be "A pleasure TO meet as
the first lady of the cabinet
The reports that reach this side make
it seem as if ex-Secretary Manning had gone
abroad to die. A statement made April LIST,
says that the voyage did him no good and
Z that he is even worse than when he arrived
m England. His friends have little hope Of
his recovery.
The President has turned over to
the Secretary of the Treasury an anonymous
I letter and Enclosure of $500, which he
I received from some person IN Brooklyn,
[ y. y. The writer says he owes this amount
/ 70 the government for customs duties.
Pending the selection of permanent
/ Offices for the use of the interstate commerce
commission temporary quarters. have been
I secured with the United States geological
survey in the Hoe building.
It is believed at Washington that
l. 4 Maynard. OF New York, will he made
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, to
| succeed Mr.. Jordan.
The report of Prof. Wiley, chemist
Of the agricultural department, on the ad-
alteration Of butter, win soon be published.
The coinage of the minis during the
month Of March was s5,i95006. of which
S3.U20.3s was in standard silver dollars.
Gen. Sheridan has returned from
his western trip having established a
military post at Denver, Colorado.
President Cleveland has been hon
ored by having, as far as heard from, 200
boys named after him
The public debt reduction for March
will be about 100000.